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'Anchor babies' cost taxpayers $2.4 billion annually

Study based on government statistics

The cost to taxpayers of births on American soil to illegal immigrants is about $2.4 billion every year, according to a new study.

The Center for Immigration Studies said its research is based on an analysis of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The government data, CIS said, “provides a good picture of births to immigrant mothers, including the mothers’ demographic characteristics.”

“These characteristics allow us to estimate the likely number of births to illegal immigrants nationally, as well as births by state and by large metropolitan area.”